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Book Synopsis A History of the Hexagon Program by : Richard J. Chester
Download or read book A History of the Hexagon Program written by Richard J. Chester and published by Study of National Reconnaissance. This book was released on 2012 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In late 1965, the stage was being set for the final study of a new generation photographic satellite. It would be required to provide the resolution of earlier close-look satellites while simultaneously providing the broad area coverage capability of previous search/surveillance systems. On July 21, 1966 proposals for the Hexagon sensor were submitted to the government by both Itek and the Perkin-Elmer Corporation. At 1700 on October 10, Mr. Robert Sorensen, then Senior Vice President, Optical Group, received an important phone call from Mr. John J. Crowley, Director of Special Projects, CIA, -- Perkin-Elmer's proposal was accepted by the government. This is a story of the events that followed."--Introduction.
Book Synopsis A History of the Hexagon Program by : Ctr Study of National Reconnaissance
Download or read book A History of the Hexagon Program written by Ctr Study of National Reconnaissance and published by . This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A History of the Hexagon Program by : Richard J. Chester
Download or read book A History of the Hexagon Program written by Richard J. Chester and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States developed the Gambit and Hexagon programs to improve the nation's means for peering over the iron curtain that separated western democracies from east European and Asian communist countries. The inability to gain insight into vast "denied areas" required exceptional systems to understand threats posed by US adversaries. Corona was the first imagery satellite system to help see into those areas. Hexagon began as a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) program with the first concepts proposed in 1964. The CIA's primary goal was to develop an imagery system with Corona-like ability to image wide swaths of the earth, but with resolution equivalent to Gambit. Such a system would afford the United States even greater advantages monitoring the arms race that had developed with the nation's adversaries. The system that became Hexagon faced three major challenges. The first was development of the technology, which was eventually overcome by the Itek and Perkin-Elmer Corporations. Perkin-Elmer took over development of the original camera system that would evolve into the primary camera for the Hexagon program. The panoramic camera system, designated KH-9, would image vast areas of the earth and prove an essential collection asset for verifying the Soviet Union's compliance with arms control treaties as well as address other intelligence questions.
Author :Center for the Study of National Reconnaissance Classics Publisher :CreateSpace ISBN 13 :9781508466468 Total Pages :230 pages Book Rating :4.4/5 (664 download)
Book Synopsis A History of the Hexagon Program by : Center for the Study of National Reconnaissance Classics
Download or read book A History of the Hexagon Program written by Center for the Study of National Reconnaissance Classics and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains introductory information and explains the corporate perspective and technical aspects of the Hexagon program. Reading the technical aspects of the program can help bring and understanding of how valuable the Hexagon Program was to U.S. national security. The history cites examples such as SALT verification, coverage of crisis areas like the Middle East, and terrain mapping for the Cruise Missile.
Author :Philip Pressel Publisher :AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics) ISBN 13 :9781624102035 Total Pages :0 pages Book Rating :4.1/5 (2 download)
Book Synopsis Meeting the Challenge by : Philip Pressel
Download or read book Meeting the Challenge written by Philip Pressel and published by AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics). This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the recently declassified story of the design, development, production, and operation of the Hexagon KH-9 reconnaissance satellite, that provided photographic intelligence to the United States government, and it stands as one of the most complicated systems ever put into space.
Book Synopsis Hexagon (KH-9) Mapping Camera Program and Evolution by : Maurice G. Burnett
Download or read book Hexagon (KH-9) Mapping Camera Program and Evolution written by Maurice G. Burnett and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States developed the Gambit and Hexagon programs to improve the nation's means for peering over the iron curtain that separated western democracies from east European and Asian communist countries. The inability to gain insight into vast "denied areas" required exceptional systems to understand threats posed by US adversaries. Corona was the first imagery satellite system to help see into those areas. Hexagon began as a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) program with the first concepts proposed in 1964. The CIA's primary goal was to develop an imagery system with Corona-like ability to image wide swaths of the earth, but with resolution equivalent to Gambit. Such a system would afford the United States even greater advantages monitoring the arms race that had developed with the nation's adversaries. The Hexagon mapping camera flew on 12 of the 20 Hexagon missions. It proved to be a remarkably efficient and prodigious producer of imagery for mapping purposes. The mapping camera system was successful by every standard including technical capabilities, reliability, and capacity.
Book Synopsis The Hexagon Story by : Frederic C. E. Oder
Download or read book The Hexagon Story written by Frederic C. E. Oder and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States developed the Gambit and Hexagon programs to improve the nation's means for peering over the iron curtain that separated western democracies from east European and Asian communist countries. The inability to gain insight into vast "denied areas" required exceptional systems to understand threats posed by US adversaries. Corona was the first imagery satellite system to help see into those areas. Hexagon began as a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) program with the first concepts proposed in 1964. The CIA's primary goal was to develop an imagery system with Corona-like ability to image wide swaths of the earth, but with resolution equivalent to Gambit. Such a system would afford the United States even greater advantages monitoring the arms race that had developed with the nation's adversaries. The system that became Hexagon faced three major challenges. The first was development of the technology, which was eventually overcome by the Itek and Perkin-Elmer Corporations. The second was bureaucratic, deciding how the CIA and Air Force would cooperate in building such a system because they each had strengths and weaknesses in the development of national reconnaissance systems. The third challenge was to secure the resources that were required to build the most complicated and largest reconnaissance satellites at the time. By 1971, the NRO overcame the challenges to successfully launch the Hexagon satellite and fulfill, or even exceed, expectations for unparalleled insight into capabilities of US adversaries.
Book Synopsis The Hexagon Story by : Frederic C. E. Oder
Download or read book The Hexagon Story written by Frederic C. E. Oder and published by Study of National Reconnaissance. This book was released on 2012 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States developed the Gambit and Hexagon programs to improve the nation's means for peering over the iron curtain that separated western democracies from east European and Asian communist countries. The inability to gain insight into vast "denied areas" required exceptional systems to understand threats posed by US adversaries. Corona was the first imagery satellite system to help see into those areas. Hexagon began as a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) program with the first concepts proposed in 1964. The CIA's primary goal was to develop an imagery system with Corona-like ability to image wide swaths of the earth, but with resolution equivalent to Gambit. Such a system would afford the United States even greater advantages monitoring the arms race that had developed with the nation's adversaries. The system that became Hexagon faced three major challenges. The first was development of the technology, which was eventually overcome by the Itek and Perkin-Elmer Corporations. The second was bureaucratic, deciding how the CIA and Air Force would cooperate in building such a system because they each had strengths and weaknesses in the development of national reconnaissance systems. The third challenge was to secure the resources that were required to build the most complicated and largest reconnaissance satellites at the time. By 1971, the NRO overcame the challenges to successfully launch the Hexagon satellite and fulfill, or even exceed, expectations for unparalleled insight into capabilities of US adversaries.
Book Synopsis A History of Satellite Reconnaissance by : James D. Outzen
Download or read book A History of Satellite Reconnaissance written by James D. Outzen and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Gambit Story by : Frederic C. E. Oder
Download or read book The Gambit Story written by Frederic C. E. Oder and published by Study of National Reconnaissance. This book was released on 2012 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the story of a photographic satellite called GAMBIT, which was developed to perform at even better resolutions than CORONA and work against specified targets -- an operation usually referred to as "surveillance mode." GAMBIT fulfilled this surveillance function from July 1963 to April 1984.
Book Synopsis The Hexagon Story by : Frederic Oder
Download or read book The Hexagon Story written by Frederic Oder and published by Military Bookshop. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes full color and black and white illustrations. Recently declassified history from the Center for the Study of National Reconnassiance, National Reconnaissance Office. From the preface: "The Hexagon Story was written in 1988 by Frederic Oder, James Fitzpatrick and Paul Worthman. Carefully doucments the Air Force's management of the Hexagon system once it was turned over to the Air Froce program element at the NRO in 1973 by the CIA program element at the NRO. The authors include a wide range of summary tables and information including details of each launch, companies and personnel involved in the launches, color photographs and illustrations, and the capabilities of the systems. The history is well-documented and sourced."
Book Synopsis Opening the Great Depths by : Norman C Polmar
Download or read book Opening the Great Depths written by Norman C Polmar and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2021-05-15 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developed by French physicist Auguste Piccard and his son Jacques, the bathyscaph Trieste was a scientific marvel that allowed unprecedented scientific, technical, and military feats in the ocean depths. France and the United States both acquired and subsequently developed variants of the original bathyscaph. While both France and the United States employed the bathyscaph as a tool for scientific investigation of the deepest ocean depths, the U.S. Navy developed and employed the Trieste for military missions as well. From its earliest years, participants in the Trieste program realized that they were making history, blazing a trail into previously unexplored and unexploited depths, developing new capabilities and opening a new frontier. Comparisons with developments in space and the space-race between the United States and the Soviet Union often were made concerning the Trieste program and contemporary developments in undersea technologies and capabilities. The Trieste opened the entire oceans to exploration, exploitation, and operations. The bathyscaph was a first-generation system, a "Model-T" that spawned an entirely new industry and encouraged new concepts for deep-ocean naval operations. Advances in deep-sea technologies lacked the "gee-whiz" factor of the concurrent space race, but were highly significant in the development of new technology, new knowledge, and new military capabilities. Opening the Great Depths is the story of the three Trieste deep-ocean vehicles, their officers and enlisted men, and the civilians, often told in their own words, documenting for the first time the earliest years of humanity's probing into Earth's final frontier.
Book Synopsis A History of Satellite Reconnaissance by : James Outzen
Download or read book A History of Satellite Reconnaissance written by James Outzen and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Birth of Air Force Satellite Reconnaissance: Facts, Recollections and Reflections by : Peter Swan
Download or read book Birth of Air Force Satellite Reconnaissance: Facts, Recollections and Reflections written by Peter Swan and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history of SAFSP is dedicated to all those men and women who fought the Cold War, in silence - from above. No organization is better at gathering overhead intelligence than the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). Today's NRO grew out of 3 organizations: AF, CIA, and Navy. The AF office for satellite reconnaissance was called the Secretary of Air Force's Office of Special Projects [SAFSP]. This monograph describes the birth of Air Force satellite reconnaissance. When SAFSP was created in response to Presidential recognition of a national imperative, 4 tenets captured the sense of urgency: direct access to national leadership, covert management/operations, highest national priority, and rapid procurement.
Book Synopsis Spies and Shuttles by : James E. David
Download or read book Spies and Shuttles written by James E. David and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2015-01-27 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this real life spy saga, James E. David reveals the extensive and largely hidden interactions between NASA and U.S. defense and intelligence departments. The story begins with the establishment of NASA in 1958 and follows the agency through its growth, not only in scope but also in complexity. In Spies and Shuttles, David digs through newly declassified documents to ultimately reveal how NASA became a strange bedfellow to the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). He tracks NASA’s early cooperation—supplying cover stories for covert missions, analyzing the Soviet space program, providing weather and other scientific data from its satellites, and monitoring missile tests—that eventually devolved into NASA’s reliance on DoD for political and financial support for the Shuttle. David also examines the restrictions imposed on such activities as photographing the Earth from space and the intrusive review mechanisms to ensure compliance. The ties between NASA and the intelligence community have historically remained unexplored, and David’s riveting book is the first to investigate the twists and turns of this labyrinthine relationship.
Book Synopsis America's Secret Eyes in Space by : Jeffrey Richelson
Download or read book America's Secret Eyes in Space written by Jeffrey Richelson and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1990 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis With Stars in Their Eyes by : James B. Breckinridge
Download or read book With Stars in Their Eyes written by James B. Breckinridge and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-04 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book details the lives of two married geniuses, Aden and Marjorie Meinel, who helped to pioneer modern optics and solar energy in the U.S. Aden B. Meinel and Marjorie P. Meinel stood at the confluence of several overarching technological developments during their lifetimes, including postwar aerial surveillance by spy planes and satellites, solar energy, the evolution of telescope design, interdisciplinary optics, and photonics. Yet, their incredible stories and their long list of scientific contributions have never been adequately recognized in one place. In this book, James Breckinridge and Alec M. Pridgeon correct this oversight by sharing the story of this powerful duo. The book follows their lives and covers large scientific developments between World War II to the Cold War. James B. Breckinridge, a previous advisee and later colleague to the Meinels, and historian and scientist Alec M. Pridgeon collected more than 200 hours of oral interviews with those who worked closely with the Meinels and some who built their careers around the findings made possible by their work. The book shares and analyzes the work done by the Meinels, and it also includes incredible insights from an unpublished Meinel autobiography.
